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Motivation, Ideology, and the Social Process in Radicalization
Mitt Romney hit the proverbial nail on the head when he proclaimed in a presidential debate that “we cannot kill our way out of this mess.” He was undoubtedly referring to the global war on
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War may not be cause of all military PTSD
United Press International: The experience of war or combat is not typically what triggers the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, a Danish researcher says. Professor Dorthe Berntsen of the Center on Autobiographical Memory Research at
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BATMAN Gear for the Real World
The United States Air Force is taking a page from an iconic comic. As an intern in the Human Performance Wing at Wright Paterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, psychological scientist Andre Garcia, from
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Embattled Childhood: The Real ‘T’ in ‘PTSD’
The Huffington Post: In 2009 a regiment of Danish soldiers, the Guard Hussars, was deployed for a six-month tour in Afghanistan’s arid Helmand Province, a Taliban stronghold. They were stationed along with British soldiers —
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Can You Instill Mental Toughness?
TIME: To be mentally tough is to resist the urge to give up in the face of failure, to maintain focus and determination in pursuit of one’s goals, and to emerge from adversity even stronger
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Grumpy Young Men
TIME: This will come as a big surprise to all those wives and girlfriends out there: a new study finds that men in uniform – even absent combat – are harder to get along with
